“It’s time we stop playing his game and he starts playing ours.”Since Rumplestiltskin decided to go off on his own to deal with his past and Peter Pan, he’s been hiding away in the woods. Using his dagger, he cuts off his own shadow and sends it off to hide the deadly weapon in a place where not even Rumplestiltskin can find it.Meanwhile, Emma and her crazy entourage are combing the jungle for their magical foe. They face an entire wood-full of deadly thorn bushes dripping with poisonous goop. Tip: Don’t touch the poisonous thorns if you desire a quick and painless death. Aside from the scary thorns, the dark jungle separates them from Pan. Well, they can’t go around it, can’t go under it, can’t go over it. Guess they’ll have to go…through it. Back in Fairy Tale Land just after that magical kiss and Snow and Charming’s announcement to take back the kingdom, the two love birds face their greatest challenge: The Evil Queen. Her threatening and manipulative ways have Snow second guessing her ability to take her down and take over her rightful place at the throne.

Prince Charming must think quickly. Rumplestiltskin helped him before, when it came to tracking Snow down in her coffin, and even earlier when he gave Charming the advice that True Love’s kiss can bring Snow back to her rightful self when she drank her “forget-me-potion” in order to rid her memories of him. Maybe the evil imp can help Charming again. Create some magic medicine to give Snow bravery—remind her that she is tough and courageous and that she was meant to be Queen.

But Rumplestiltskin is holding tight to his secret. So…Charming devises his own plan. Excalibur, the famous “sword in the stone” that only the rightful heir to the throne may exhume, you know, the one in Camelot? Well, funny thing, it isn’t in Camelot. No, it’s right here in the Enchanted Forest and Charming talks Snow into giving it a try. Demonstrating that even his own strength can’t unearth the sword, Snow gives it a try. With little effort, the silver blade slides from its resting place. It is now in the hands of the true ruler.

With renewed strength and determination, Snow and Charming, along with seven little men, confront the Evil Queen. Slicing and dicing, Snow cuts the Evil Queen’s cheek—a warning shot of what is to come. Let the games begin!

Back in Neverland, present day, Emma is awakened from her sleep in the woods to a rustle in the bushes. She hunts down the sound and comes face to face with Peter Pan. He’s come to deliver a map that will lead to Henry, a map that only Emma can read once she starts believing in who she really is. In the camp, she tells her posse. They try to help her unveil the map, but even once she admits that she is the savior, the map is still devoid of details.

Regina, impatient, puts a locating spell on the map, letting it float ahead of them towards Henry.

Off in the woods elsewhere, Rumplestiltskin has run into a familiar face, albeit, she is only a hallucination of his own wishful thinking. Belle has come to help him confront his past. Save Henry. Be the courageous man she knows he can be. Don’t repeat history. Let go of the past and do what is right.

So, Rumplestiltskin throws his precious cornhusk doll his father gave him into the watery abyss at the cliff’s edge. However, when it flies back up and lands at his feet, he tries and fails to burn it with fire. With only minor hesitation, Rumplestiltskin pockets the toy, thus holding his past close to his heart.

In the dark jungle, Emma and crew have come to a standstill. The map has stopped somewhere in the vast jungle. But it’s a trap. Hook warned the group that the dark jungle, along with the entire island, is all part of Pan’s mind game. The dark jungle is his greatest strength. Now caught in a trap, Pan and the Lost Boys gang up and attack. Swords and arrows fly. People are cut and wounded. But when Emma comes face to face with one of the Lost Boys, knife in hand and going in to kill, she hesitates.

Pan calls his Boys off and they disappear into the woods, but not without a reminder of the rules: stop denying who you really are and the map will reveal where Henry waits.

Mary Margaret questions Emma’s hesitation in killing one of their foes. In a heart-warming/melting conversation, Emma admits that she saw herself in the eyes of the boy. The abandonment she has felt all her life. She was and still is an orphan, a lost girl.

Swoosh! The map is unveiled! It will lead them straight to Henry.

Back in Fairy Tale Land, Snow White decides to track down Rumplestiltskin and find out just how he helped Charming. Rumplestiltskin admits that he did nothing. Excalibur is still in Camelot. That sword she pulled from the stone is merely an ordinary sword Charming planted there.

Snow is furious, but not for long. Charming admits that he lied but it was for her own good. She is and always will be a brave, fearless leader. She just needed a reminder. Warm-fuzzies abound and all is forgiven in the name of love.Switching back to the present day Neverland, Mary Margaret is concerned about a wound David contracted while fighting the Lost Boys. He pushes it off, saying that the sword never touched his skin. Appeased, Mary Margaret leaves David alone, but once she’s gone, he examines his side. There, thin but deep is the wound caused by a poisoned dipped sword. Inky black veins of poison are beginning to spread. David’s fate is a slow, painful death.

But why stop there?

That night, Emma wanders off to pick some berries. Peter Pan silently creeps up on her, muttering the worst words a mother would want to hear. Sure, Emma may have discovered Henry’s location, but by the time she reaches him, Henry will never want to leave Neverland, because despite all the good memories they share from the past few months she’s been in his life, he is also an orphan, just like her. And Henry has never forgiven her for it.

Oh, and one last thing: Emma may feel like an orphan now, but by the time her journey to find Henry has come to an end, she won’t just feel like an orphan; she’ll actually be one!

Burning Questions:1) What will it take for Rumplestiltskin to get rid of his past? Or is that his fate—his undoing?2) Where is Henry? 3) How and when will Emma and her family get Henry back and get out of Neverland?4) What does Peter Pan want from Emma, Henry, or anyone else? What is his grief with Snow White and Prince Charming that he desires to kill?5) What will cure David from the poisonous thorn bush cut?6) How will Snow White and Prince Charming take back the kingdom? How do they “get rid of” the Evil Queen?7) Will Emma ever accept Mary Margaret and David as her parents? Will her parents ever get to act as her parents rather than just her peers?8) What’s going on in Storybrooke?~Taryn

This show is the best one yet in try to watch it when u can but I have school so I only get to watch it when I'm off of school but I LOVE this show it is so intristing, I never whant to stop watching it also keep on making more episodes of this great show. Also my mom loves this show to.KEEP THE GOOD WORK UP.😜😄😄😱😂😂😂😂😄😄